By conquering this new world, compels me now To do what else, though damned, I should abhor. So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant’s plea, [...]

We have discussed the high value of systems and teams in this space before. Collective action can be powerful and productive. It can also be immensely [...]

Of Elephants and Mice Circuses are no longer as common as they once were, but some in the reading audience might remember the elephant balanced on a very small [...]

A well-known aphorism asserts that, “There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find [...]

In 1987 Thomas Sowell wrote A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. In this book, he said, “Visions rest ultimately on some [...]

Know What’s So Yesterday Joe Biden apparently found out how much he was hurting his political party because what he knew for sure “just wasn’t so” as [...]

Last week we discussed in this space the immense number of things that people “know” that aren’t so. When this author was young, the world was threatened [...]

A popular saying assures us that “it ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble, it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” The [...]

A few weeks ago we discussed in this space the value of excellent productive work. No nation can enjoy a high standard of living on a widespread basis without [...]

“In the long run we’re all dead,” Keynes informed us. He did so in order to stress economic theory’s inability to determine the distant future. [...]

Work: The Backbone of Nations Americans have lived in an environment of excellence and plenty for so long that many of us have no concept of what it’s like [...]

Austrian economists have been conclusively demonstrating for many decades that economics is not about complex equations, government control, and meticulous [...]